Here we are, the final installment of 2011 Words for the Month from Box of Crayons. So what did we do this year, pray tell?
So it took me into 2012 to finish my Words for 2011. I’m not unhappy with that. Frankly, I went through several weeks where I had absolutely no love for anything online, and because of that, there was an absence of flow.
See what I did there? I used both words. Can I go home now? No? Okay…
I stopped blogging, tweeting, facebooking, and just generally using computers for anything beyond doing my job. I got rid of a bunch of Facebook friends, and stopped following hundreds of Twitter users that provided absolutely no value to my stream, and I stopped writing blog posts. I stopped not because I couldn’t write, but because I didn’t want to write. No love.
But here we are, looking at a brand new year; old stuff will feel new, and new stuff will get old quickly.
Flow doesn’t start or stop with a calendar. One of the reasons I don’t make resolutions is that no promise is ever fulfilled by a date. What matters is the what happens, not when. If your goal is to lose 20 pounds by February, and you have only lost 16, have you failed?
With that, I still have no promises to myself other than to do what I always have done: find cool stuff to learn about, share out cool stuff with people, be passionate about my personal and professional lives, have a cocktail and laugh at a dirty joke every now and then.
That’s how I flow.
